Puzzles, first.\u00a0 I never heard from Dragon*Con or whoever (if anyone) won my auction donations about the auction winners.\u00a0\u00a0 I was findable (at autograph session and panels) the day after the auction, and expected someone to walk up and show me the certificate and then I’d know who.\u00a0\u00a0 Didn’t happen.\u00a0 The elevator crush was so bad on Monday, when I was leaving, that I did not have time to go over to con ops and ask them…I thought there’d be an email when I got home, but there wasn’t.\u00a0\u00a0 Did no one bid on the Tuckerizations?\u00a0 Did my contribution somehow get lost in the pile of things in the boxes where guests were supposed to put them when checking in?\u00a0\u00a0 No clue.\u00a0 No clue whom to contact.\u00a0\u00a0 If I had not come down with a juicy and miserable cold earlier this week, I might have been able to look back through my emails for a contact person, but I can’t sit up and stare at the computer screen that long–vision’s fuzzy too.<\/p>\n
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How the book is doing.\u00a0\u00a0 Not a whole lot of progress since coming home, but additional research has been done to fill in some gaps, and additional character work done on characters who were still not as “alive” as they should be.\u00a0\u00a0 It really is tricky when you have a lot of characters at the same “level” and that level is two or more down from protagonist(s).\u00a0\u00a0 Normally they would be scattered through the book, coming from different places, in different occupations, and not all interacting with the protag at the same time.\u00a0\u00a0 I am not satisfied yet that I have them solidly themselves, which for this book they need to be, though for most books they’re complex enough for their level.\u00a0\u00a0 The secondaries are now “done” although there are sections in the book where they need to be brought up to their full (annoying in one case) selves.<\/p>\n
I have informed my agent and editors about the pending health stuff in the family (not in me personally) that may impinge on the existing contract, though I don’t expect it to delay this book, since it’s so far along (and that’s why I pushed it so hard that it will need more revision in the next month.)\u00a0 In addition there are home repair things that must be done this month or next and other typical LifeStuff complications.\u00a0\u00a0 If I could go back to my 13 year old self, I would tell her to renounce and burn that poem she wrote in which she declared she did not want an easy life, an uncomplicated life, she wanted (no, I’ll spare you the adolescent self-dramatization.\u00a0 It’s a wonder anyone let me live.)\u00a0\u00a0 For that matter, I’d tell my 5 year old self that it is unwise to say to one’s mother, who is trying to finesse a confrontation with the angry child, that “Maybe I WANT trouble!”\u00a0\u00a0 I got trouble.\u00a0\u00a0 There’s a theme here, maybe.<\/p>\n
The picture of Ky is finished; I’ll post it when we’ve completed the handshake, handover, transfer of funds, and so on.\u00a0 The artist is a teacher, and thus busy; it’s an international transfer and thus slightly complicated.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, it’s time for another aspirin and back to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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